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Shipping a Car to Costa Rica – What Should I Do?

TCRN STAFF — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:59:35 +0000

What should I do, bring my car or buy one already here? That is the dilemma for many of us living in Costa Rica or soon to be living here. Anyone looking to purchase a vehicle in Costa Rica soon find out that used vehicle and new one for that matter, are a lot more expensive here [...]

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80 Costa Rican Beaches Received Ecological Blue Flag

David Gomez — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:59:05 +0000

A total of 80 beaches from all over the country received the ecological blue flag award during the 16th ceremony of the Ecological Blue Flag Program (PBAE), which took place last March 28th at the Double Tree Hotel in Puntarenas. For the first time, the Costa Rican Institute of Tourism (ICT) decided to hold an [...]

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Costa Rican Diplomat is Latest Venezuela Kidnap Victim Freed

TCRN STAFF — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:59:31 +0000

(RTTNews) – A Costa Rican diplomat who was abducted in the Venezuelan capital city of Caracas earlier this week has been released unharmed by his captors, Venezuelan officials said Tuesday. In a Twitter message posted Tuesday, Venezuelan Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami said the release of Guillermo Cholele, the abducted Costa Rican diplomat, was the [...]

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Retired Lifeguard Calls for Help in Costa Rica After Lifesaving Rescue

TCRN STAFF — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:59:35 +0000

Richard Abrams, now retired and living near Playa Dominical, Costa Rica, worked as a lifeguard in Imperial Beach for 18 years. He was hired and trained by Dempsey Holder and mentored by Tom Keck. Late in February, Richard rescued local Tico surfer Oscar Manuel, 19, in what he described as the “heaviest rescue of my [...]

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Twin Boy Scouts Honored for Saving Father’s Life During Heart Attack

TCRN STAFF — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:59:42 +0000

It was 3 a.m. in a condo in Costa Rica when Eric Nuevert shook his twin sons awake. “Bryce! Bryant!” He repeated their names again and again. The boys were expecting an early start to their trip to Panama that day. Instead, they found their dad on the floor with crippling chest pains. He was [...]

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Costa Rica Deficit Plans Face Delay After Finance Minister Quits

TCRN STAFF — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:59:20 +0000

The resignation of Costa Rica’s Finance Minister Fernando Herrero may delay a congressional vote on tax changes aimed at paring a $2 billion fiscal deficit, said Boris Segura, strategist at Nomura Securities in New York. Herrero submitted his resignation to President Laura Chinchilla yesterday following allegations by the La Nacion newspaper that he underpaid taxes [...]

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Costa Rica Seeks $500 Million Bond Sale in Wake of Tax Vote

TCRN STAFF — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:59:15 +0000

Costa Rica will seek to sell at least $500 million in bonds abroad this year to help sustain economic growth and improve the Central American nation’s infrastructure, Finance Minister Fernando Herrero said. Costa Rica joined Trinidad & Tobago and Bolivia in announcing plans to sell benchmark dollar bonds amid near-record low borrowing costs in the [...]

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Costa Rica Rises The Least In Cost Of Living

TCRN STAFF — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:59:25 +0000

Last year Costa Rica suffered less from the effects of inflation, than any other country in Central America, according to a ranking (Spanish only) published this week. Tight control over the cost of regulated services was one reason for the favorable results. Not all the news was good, however, since major causes for low inflation [...]

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Cummins Forms Partnership in Central America

TCRN STAFF — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:59:15 +0000

Cummins Inc. , an engine maker based in Columbus, Ind., has formed a joint venture with Grupo Laeisz to distribute and service Cummins engines, generators and parts in a region that includes Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras. The joint venture will be called Cummins Centroamérica, according to a news release Wednesday. Laeisz has been [...]

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Costa Rica Smoking Ban

TCRN STAFF — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:59:31 +0000

Costa Rica may soon be part of the growing list of countries to adopt measures aimed at protecting non-smokers from secondhand smoke and part of the 150 million plus smokers in Latin America and the Caribbean that are finding it more and more difficult to smoke in public places. More than half the countries in [...]

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Costa Rica Stability – Economic, Political, and Social

TCRN STAFF — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:59:41 +0000

Amidst the political and social turbulence that plagues many of the Latin America countries, Costa Rica has been able to sidestep that. The economic, political and social stability of Costa Rica is one characteristic that has distinguished it through its entire contemporary history and as one of its most important strengths, has enabled it to [...]

Costa Rica Domestic Help: Benefits and Risks for Retirees

Kat Sunlove — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:59:05 +0000

One of the many great things about retirement in Costa Rica is the quality and affordability of domestic help and other manual labor. Maids, cooks, gardeners, childcare workers or property caretakers are all a bargain compared to North American rates for such services. In our two years here, my husband Layne and I have had [...]

Costa Rica Draws Record Investment on Technology, Communications

TCRN STAFF — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:03:22 +0000

Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Foreign direct investment in Costa Rica rose 52 percent to a record $1.56 billion in the first nine months of 2011 on increased spending by technology and telecommunications companies. Investment in the Central American country’s free-trade zone, where U.S. corporations such as Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. [...]

Costa Rica to sterilize fruit flies with X-rays

TCRN STAFF — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:59:22 +0000

The Costa Rican State Phytosanitary Service (SFE) aims to sterilize fruit flies with X-ray technology in a bid to reduce crop damages, website Laestrella.com.pa reported. The SFE acquired the US$220,000 technology with the help of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which donated half the cost. Fruit Fly National Program chief Arturo Saborío, told the [...]

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Costa Rica American Football

TCRN STAFF — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:57:52 +0000

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica – Sweat slid down the cheeks of more than 30 men wearing shoulder pads, helmets and shorts during a recent football practice at the La Sabana Metropolitan Park in the nation’s capital. Between shouts and gestures indicating the extent of their physical strain, the Rhinos – an American football team – [...]